how old are YOU??Follow

I'm 22. Age does not matter really as long of the person has some good characteristics.

But there is something where age certainly does matter. Nobody likes it when you see a thing like "Sorry my mother is calling me to dinner, I'll be back in 30 mins." in the middle of the instance. I do understand and respect people's real life but I've seen that a lot over months. If you're due to do something in real life, simply do not accept an offer, it's not nice to steal from people's time. I don't have to wait for 30 minutes for someone's dinner. What I want to see is that I've seen that happen a lot more frequently with younger players than older ones.

Just my two cents.

For some reason it said when registering if your not 25 or older your not allowed in. I went into the game later and told him. Since I am 14 he wouldnt let me join.

It's sad that you will set such an arbitrary limitation on who you will group/guild with.

Now, it's true, the generalizations exist because, in general, they are true. However, there are lots of exceptions.




How old are you? Doesn't matter nearly as much as the true question.

How old do you act?

I am a 13 year old who quit the game, AGE DOESN'T MATTER MATURITY DOES.

Edited, Dec 2nd 2006 2:06pm by ozmonkey

Everyone I've tried being friendly with in WoW acts really strange.. it's as if they don't know how to respond if you aren't insulting them or bragging about something. As I said before, it's probably just me and my bad luck, but I have yet to make a single person there that I can really get along with ><

What's "wrong" about playing *with* any particular group is that it is a matter of personal choice. The choice that your quotes highlight is a preference for who the posters wish to associate with. They don't have to associate with anyone they don't want to, but in the case of first quote notice the phrase "just to do instances." In other words, going back to that thread's topic, the poster wanted to know if he could get to 60 solo, or would the game's mechanics force him to group with people he didn't really want to?

Urk! I've read "10 is the new 15" and perhaps for some matters it is. To lol at a sexual joke is fine, you might even drink beer depending on where you are, you could even have some form of part time job ... you still have rather little in common with the college crowd, and less in common with those older. Your dates are not their dates, you're unlikely to frequent the same bars, and your work environment has little more than a superficial kinship to theirs. You live in a structured environment of classrooms and activities that is foreign to me -- nor would it be what I experienced at your age, in '74, when you knew the other side were Germans because the counters on the board were afflicted with Pink Panzer syndrome. If you didn't get that joke, that highlights my point. We will tend to see things though different filters.

As a game player, you are probably far better than I am. As a choice to burn through a raid, you would probably be a far better choice than I to group with. As a person to talk to during a long grind though, you're a bit short on life experiences. Whether it offends you or not, people have the right to choose who they talk to. If their criteria include things like "must be of an age that can legally marry and/or enter a bar" that's up to them.

A final observation comes to mind. Words are often used casually, with unfortunate results. Immature is "not ripe yet" and not quite the same as "acts like a jerk" although the distinction is often overlooked -- as is the distinction between ignorant and stupid. There are jerks of all ages, and the condition seems to be impossible to cure; however, immaturity (in the technical sense) often responds to the application of several years of experience.